So you've got your sound bites, what do you do with them if you want to be on TV, my advice, be every place else to you should be disseminating your opinions on the news on Twitter, on your Facebook page, on your blog, through email, and you need to start building relationships with television producers in your own town at the national level. And for that matter, international level, I mean, I frequently do commentary for aljazeera. They've been on BBC, I've been on TV networks all over the world Canadian networks. So you don't want to limit yourself these days. In fact, you can do the live TV through Skype through a simple little studio like I have here. This is not a fancy, expensive studio so you can reach the whole world.
Regardless of where you're based. You can be in a small town in Alabama these days, and still have some arm and television punditry So I want you to start getting used to the idea if you want to be on TV, you got to be everyplace else. Because TV producers are looking for people with name ID, they're looking for people with a following. They're looking for people who are all ready out there. That's why the Best Television pundits are also writing books, have blogs have syndicated columns, and are doing radio. So you really need to think of yourself as more of a multimedia pundit rather than a TV pundit.
But I know that TV has the most glamour and that's why we've titled The course that way. But you need to be out there. You need to get your ideas out there every single format, all social media that you can think of get your ideas out there, but get them out there quickly. If there's a Supreme Court decision that you disagree with and you're a legal scholar, far better and the story breaks at 10am Marine Corps decision comes out of Tevin tan, it's hit the wire services at 1015, you're far better off, putting out a soundbite analysis of three sentences, explaining your perspective perhaps attacking the Supreme Court and getting it out by 10:25am, the same day of your 10 minutes later than writing a really detailed for for serious thousand word critique and it coming out the next morning. You're not going to get any TV coverage.
If it comes out the next morning. A few exceptions if it's in the New York Times or The New Yorker, perhaps. But for the most part, you need speed, you need to get it out there quickly. That's how you can be of use to the producers, the Booker's who decide who goes on TV, and who doesn't. So that's why I need you to think about every form of communication to get your analysis out there. Twitter Facebook, Pinterest, any social media outlet you use.
Also just good old fashioned email to reporters, producers and anyone you already know, in the media, you want your ideas out there. You want ideas you're proud of. You need ideas that crystallize your thought that can be done in a sentence or two. That does not require someone reading 750 words, if everything you do is involving wildly complex analysis, you may want to stick to your blog. Nothing wrong with that. You may want to stick to writing books, nothing wrong with that.
Television is a faster medium. You need to be able to get your viewpoints across more quickly. And that's what we got to focus on now. So I want you to come up with a list of all the different ways you can promote your ideas, your analysis of what's in the news. That does not include television. Let's catalogue what you already have your own YouTube channel, your own blog, your own Twitter feed.
So write a list of all the different places right now where you can disseminate your opinions.